Incidents in the life of a slave girl : written by herself
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Contributors
Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880, editor.
Yellin, Jean Fagan, writer of added commentary.
Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850, writer of added commentary.
Miles, Tiya, 1970- author of introduction, etc.
Yellin, Jean Fagan, writer of added commentary.
Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850, writer of added commentary.
Miles, Tiya, 1970- author of introduction, etc.
Published
New York : Modern Library, an imprint of Random House, 2021.
Format
Book
Edition
Modern Library trade paperback edition.
Status
Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult)
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Published
New York : Modern Library, an imprint of Random House, 2021.
Edition
Modern Library trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 283 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Editor: L. Maria Child.
General Note
Commentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret Fuller.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-269).
Description
"In clear and unshrinking prose, Harriet Jacobs--writing under the pseudonym Linda Brent--relates the story of her girlhood and adolescence as a slave in North Carolina and her eventual escape: a bildungsroman set in the complex terrain of a sexist, white supremacist society. Resolutely addressing women readers rather than men, Incidents in the life of a slave girl seeks to make the reader understand how the threat of sexual violence shapes the lives of enslaved Black women and children. Equally brave and searing, Incidents in the life of a slave girl is a triumph of American literature, and the unflinching narrative that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women"--Back cover.